
Now lets add and customize your applications with Growl. Once you’ve found a notification style that you’d like to set as the default, select the General tab again and choose that style from the Display Style: drop-down list. Each of the notification styles has its own options – typically you can (at the least) adjust the opacity and duration of the notification. Try each one out by selecting it and then clicking the Preview button. Here you’ll decide which of the notification ‘styles’ you want to use. Skip the Applications tab (for now) and select Display Options.
One of the first things you’ll want to do is place a check in the box labelled Start at Login.If the Growl preferences pane did not open automatically after the installation, launch it by opening your System Preferences and then select Growl from the Other row. There are some great ‘extras’ included with Growl that we’ll review in a few minutes. After Growl has installed, minimize (but don’t close) the.dmg file, locate the file named Growl.prefPane and double-click it. dmg file to your desktop and when the download is finished, open it.
To get started, visit to download Growl. Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information (new email arrived, one of your IM buddies came online, a file finished transferring etc) without you having to switch from the application you’re already in…
#PHP GROWL NOTIFICATION FOR MAC OS#
This tutorial will guide you in downloading, installing and setting up Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X.